 | William Kenrick - 1797 - 566 pages
...it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it!" And yet, (continues the laureat) this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration in so capital an aftor, when he attempted to be an aftor himself, soon qaitted the stage in an honest despair of ever... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 436 pages
...it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake ill" And yet, (continues the laureat) this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration in so capital an aclor, when he attempted to be an ac'tor himself, soon quittcu the stage in an honest despair of ever... | |
 | Nathaniel Lee - 1797 - 144 pages
...it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it!" And yet (continues th« laureat) this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration in so capital an aftor, when he attempted to be an aclor himself, soon quitted the stage in an honest despair of ever... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 426 pages
...as well as you " read it, to what purpose should " I undertake it? And yet (con" tinues the laureat) this very " author, whose elocution raised '•' such...joined with Dryden, between that period and the year 1084, on the llth of November of which he was taken into Bedlam, where he continued four years. All... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 430 pages
...as well as you ' read it, to what purpose should ' I undertake it? And yet (con' tinues the laureat) this very author, 'whose elocution raised •' such...of ever making any profitable ' figure there." In 1i575, his first play appeared ; and he wrote nine plays, besides two in which he joined with Dryden,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 560 pages
...69.— Strype's Life of Cranmer, p. 9, 25, 77. should I undertake it! And yet (continues the laureat) this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration...despair of ever making any profitable figure there." Failing, therefore, in. this design, he had recourse to his pen for support ; and composed a tragedy,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 552 pages
...— Strype's Life of Cranmer, p. 9, 25, 77. »hould I undertake it! And yet (continues the laureat) this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration...despair of ever making any profitable figure there." Failing, therefore, in this design, he had recourse to his pen for support ; and composed a tragedy,... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...69.—Strype's Life of Cranmer, p. 9, 25, 77. should I undertake it! And yet (continues the laureat) this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration...despair of ever making any profitable figure there." Failing, therefore, in this design, he had recourse to his pen for support; and composed a tragedy,... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1822 - 564 pages
...Unless I were able to play it, as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ?" And yet this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration...despair of ever making any profitable figure there, f From all this I would infer, that & * In 'the year 1690. t It would almost appear from this, that... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 374 pages
...what purpose should I undertake it ?' And yet," continues Gibber, " this very author, whose eloquence raised such admiration in so capital an actor, when...the stage, in an honest despair of ever making any figure there." — The part which Lee attempted, and failed in, was Duncan, in Sir William D'Avenant's... | |
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I have been informed by an actor who was present, that while Lee was reading to major Mohun at a rehearsal, Mohun in the warmth of his admiration threw down his part and said — " Unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose... 
